There was no police force, parliament or unified financial system in the self-proclaimed independent republic.

However this self-proclaimed republic was recognised neither by the British government nor any other state.

There are also self-proclaimed republics that act similarly to monarchies with absolute power vested in the leader and passed down from father to son.

The military, along with the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina, dissolved in 1995.

I would like to draw your attention to the dramatic situation still facing the Serbian community in the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo.

He held talks with governments and leaders of self-proclaimed republics and with opposition leaders.

He said his self-proclaimed republic would send a team to peace talks in New York but he would not be heading it.

The chief prosecutor in the self-proclaimed republic of Dniestr was seriously injured and his wife killed in a bomb attack, city officials said here Friday.

The districts never actually functioned since they were located within the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina.

By mid-June 1919, however, Armenia succeeded in establishing control over Nakhchivan and the whole territory of the self-proclaimed republic.